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The Congress for
Progressive Change (CPC) will mobilize the masses to demand from public
office holders an account of their stewardship, the deputy chairman of
the CPC Board of Trustees, Sule Hamma, has said.

Mr. Hamma, who
spoke while receiving a delegation of Group Four, Course 32 of the
National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), said if
elected in into government in 2011, the party led by former military
leader Muhammadu Buhari, would ensure that there is sanity in
governance.

“We are going to
use the power of the masses to crush the elites and their cohorts who
have continuously connived to dupe the masses and we will provoke the
masses to look into what their representatives received without doing
anything for their constituencies. If the present situation is allowed
to continue, there would be no hope for Nigerian masses,” Mr Hamma said.

He also said the
failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to
understand the dynamics of the processes of rigging of election may mar
the success of the 2011 general elections.

Unchanged PDP

Mr. Hamma accused
the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of rigging in all elections,
adding that the party has not changed going by the results of recent
local government and senatorial bye-elections across the country.

According to him, the forthcoming elections may not be free and fair after all.

“Given the short
time frame for preparation, lack of infrastructure and lack of INEC’s
understanding of the dynamics of the processes of election rigging by
desperate politicians and their cohorts among other concerns, we do not
see the possibility of free and fair elections in the country,” he said.

The BOT chairman
also alleged that Commissioners of Police, Brigade Commanders, SSS
Directors, Residents Electoral Commissioners (RECs), traditional rulers
and prominent politicians connived and compromise justice by rigging
elections after being “settled.”

Leader of the NIPSS
delegation and Director of Research at the institute, Olu Obafemi, said
the visit to the party secretariat was part of their academic programme
to find out the level of preparation of stakeholders for the 2011 polls.